Education/outreach is essential for being a well rounded scientist. @stevengoldfarb explains how this is promoted in particle physics by making these activities formal responsibilities, with dedicated funding, review & recognition #scicomm #academia #GR22Amaldi13
Insights from particle physics & @IppogOrg. @stevengoldfarb highlights how building trust in scientists is essential. There is a lot of false information out there (search for CERN on YouTube). Society needs to have access to good information to progress #GR22Amaldi13 #scicomm
Interested in working in gravitational physics education? @ARC_OzGRav have PhDs and postdoc openings! Speak to @MagdaKersting #GR22Amaldi13
Outreach to scientists is also important. @martin_astro highlights how @LISACommunity has similar publication statistics as @LIGO despite still being 15 years from launch! (Searching by title in @adsabs) #GR22Amaldi13
Following the main @GR22Amaldi13 meeting is the First International Gravitational Waves Outreach Group Meeting, discussing outreach, formal and informal education, and public engagement #GR22Amaldi13
Zsuzsanna Marka explains the search for multimessenger sources, and in going beyond 2 messengers to have gravitational waves, light and neutrinos. A historical perspective is given in the LIGO Magazine www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-i... #GR22Amaldi13
Agata Trovato is using convolutional neutral nets to look for glitches. Currently only proof-of-concept, but I'm interested to see how this develops. Another shout out for Gravity Spy! #GR22Amaldi13
A new coherent search described by @gash789 of @ARC_OzGRav. Need to model both the population of signals and noise. Nice shout out to Gravity Spy on glitch classification! #GR22Amaldi13
Javier Rowley gives a nice talk on using the IAS events to constrain the massive black hole population. Mostly consistent with @LIGO—@ego_virgo results. I'd like to see new in this #GR22Amaldi13
Barak Zackay on the IAS search for gravitational waves. They claim a few not found by @LIGO—@ego_virgo. Vetos based on signal consistency seem to have a big impact on their search. I would love to see an injection study #GR22Amaldi13
Connor McIsaac is also interested in gravitational lensed gravitational waves. Can we find subthreshold strong lenses images since we know what to look for? Such a limited search does reduce the background #GR22Amaldi13
Tjonnie Li is looking for gravitational lensed gravitational waves. So far individual events match expectations for no lensing. Full coherent analysis of signals shows no evidence for multiple imaging. Perhaps one day… #GR22Amaldi13
Osvaldo Moreschi explains an alternative filtering procedure to whitening for extracting signals https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00546 He concludes that GW150914 is real. Which is nice #GR22Amaldi13
Vivekananthaswamy Gayathri covers the search for intermediate mass black holes in @LIGO/@ego_virgo data https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08000 Intermediate mass black holes could be the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. None detected so far #GR22Amaldi13
Mark Van Raamsdonk gives an overview of how we can gain insights about gravitational physics from quantum information using anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to connect entropy and spacetime #GR22Amaldi13
Ed shows how we keep improving our analyses. Left is initial quick analysis of tidal deformation from #GW170817. Middle uses more low frequency data, a variety of waveforms and fixes the sky position. Right assumed both neutron stars share an equation of state #GR22Amaldi13
Ed Porter gives an overview of @LIGO & @ego_virgo #GravitationalWave observations. 11 detections in the first two observing runs. O3 has had lots of candidates so far — this slide has been remade many times #GR22Amaldi13
Licia Verde highlights the tension between early universe measurements of the Hubble constant and those in the late universe. Diplomatically, our gravitational-wave measurement is consistent with both #GR22Amaldi13
This week I'm at @GR22Amaldi13. There are far too many parallel sessions. I'll try to keep up on #GR22Amaldi13
